Thursday, 6 April 2017

Remembering a Great Korean

Andy Brooks recalls the life of a great Korean

by New Workercorrespondent

Friends of the Korean people returned to
the Chadswell Centre in central London last weekend to celebrate the 105th
anniversary of the birth of great leader Kim Il Sung, the Korean communist who
led the guerrilla struggle that broke the bonds of Japanese colonialism to
build the people’s republic which now stands as a bright red bastion of
socialism in north east Asia.

Kim Il Sung was born on 15th April 1912
and his birthday has long been celebrated as the Day of the Sun in the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea and by everyone who stands by the DPRK.

Speakers, including solidarity activists
and DPR Korea diplomats, spoke highly of Kim Il Sung’s immense contribution to
the theory and practice of scientific socialism at the meeting called by the
Korean Friendship Association (KFA).

KFA Chair Dermot Hudson opened the meeting
with a talk on the outstanding achievements of the Korean revolutionary whose
life spanned most of the 20th century. This was followed by Kim Song
Gi from the DPRK embassy in Londonwho said that his country was firmly based
on the revolutionary traditions of Mt Paektu started by the great leader Kim Il
Sun. Now the Korean people are successfully implementing the twin line of
developing the economy and nuclear force in parallel under the wise leadership
of Kim Jong Un.

Alex Meads spoke about the revolutionary
traditions of the Korean People’s Army and their internationalist support for
the Vietnamese, Egyptian and Zimbabwean revolutions while NCP leader Andy
Brooks talked about his personal recollections of Kim Il Sung whom he met when
the NCP sent a delegation to Pyongyang in 1990.

There was plenty of time for questions and
general discussion which continued over refreshments long after the meeting
ended.